Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.

The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

I sense a thousand strands of sorrow are sewn into an inch of my spirit.

We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.

You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.